How to get back into reading books

如何重拾阅读书籍的乐趣

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2026-08-21

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Our specialist panel on which books may help you put your phone away and get reading again. With Charlotte Northedge, David Shariatmadari and Rebecca Liu. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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  • This is officially the National Year of Reading.

  • You'll probably have noticed the campaigns, or at least Dua Lipa, urging you to pick up a book or listen to one.

  • 40% of British adults haven't gone near a book in the last year.

  • Only one in five children are reading every day.

  • We know those numbers used to be a lot higher, and that reading for pleasure has been swapped for scrolling for doom.

  • Can you get the muscle back?

  • And why does it matter?

  • I think it's that sense of total immersion in a world and the way it colours your day emotionally.

  • I think when you get that, you know you've struck gold.

  • There are all of these amazing novels that people have spent their lives writing in some cases.